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by Scott Juba Published: January 26, 2006
“The great thing about him is that he will go to great lengths to achieve success,” Chase says of his character. “He fails once and once again, but he just keeps getting up and trying harder and harder every time.” A native of Florida, Chase’s acting career took off when he moved to New York City. “I read about the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York, and I went there. I luckily got into their master’s program, and I did some off-Broadway when I was there. Then, I luckily came out to LA on a job and stayed.” Chase says his New York theatre experience prepared him well for his current sitcom role. “[Acting] on a sitcom is just like doing theatre,” he remarks. “We have an audience there. If you don’t land a joke, and if you’re not feeling it, the audience is not feeling it. If the audience isn’t laughing, you know you’re not doing your job. You’re really playing to the audience.” That pressure to perform gives Chase pre-show jitters, but he uses that nervous energy to motivate himself. “I’m nervous every time,” he says. “If I’m not nervous, I know I’m not alive. But you just use it…When [the live taping] comes, I’ll be on my game. Every day up until then, that’s kind of where the nerves come in. As soon as they introduce our characters and we do our intros and then bam, we start shooting, that’s my element right there.” Although thrilled to be living his dream, Chase tells me the reality of being a working actor is different from how he imagined it would be. “It’s totally different,” he says. “If I could describe it, I think it’s like the circles in the city of Rome. Once you drive through the next circle it gets more and more [intense] until you’re in the middle of this crazy circle with mopeds driving around. Working as an actor, it’s the same thing. As you go through each level, you experience something new. The more you work, you get to a certain point where you have more opportunities and more abilities to perform in different manners at your will.” A proud graduate of the University of Florida, Chase is exuberant about the football team’s recent win in the Outback Bowl. He still enjoys reminiscing about his experiences at the university. “There were some great athletes [when I was there],” he recalls. “I was in the dorm my freshman year with all of the second and third string football players. As much as they were trained, they would party, too.” While Chase may have many fond memories of the past, with the successful path he’s on, he should be most excited about the future. |
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